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Stopping Carvedilol (Coreg): When will the effects wear off?
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Aug 21 10:21pm | Replies (387)Comment receiving replies
I was recently put on Carvedilol for high blood pressure by my primary doctor. She started me out on a low dose and kept increasing it because my bp was not going down. At a check-up at the ER, it was increased also to 25mg in am and 12.5 in pm. I was actually found to have a really bad bladder infection going on for 2 weeks before it was found which is what I believe drove my bp up drastically and had a really bad case of gerd. Even though I had a heart attach in 2005, (a minor one) I have never had an issue with blood pressure. After I was on the carvedilol for a couple weeks, I started feeling very anxious and having tremors. It got to the point where I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. I went back to the dr. and she prescribed Zoloft and Ativan to help until the Zoloft kicked in. She also said to continue the Carvedilol 12.5 in am and 6.25 in pm. About 4 days into the Zoloft, I really thought I was going to have to be hospitalized. I stopped taking it but I continued with the anxiousness and tremors and continued to take the lorazepam .25 a couple times a day. Occasionally I would take 12.5 mg of benadryl to also help. I would then feel somewhat normal again and tell myself that it's just the medications making me feel this way. I don't believe I needed to be on a psych med but thought I'd try to see if it would help since it's used for anxiety also. It only made it worse. I am currently weaning myself off the carvedilol. I am going to make an appointment with a cardiologist to see what they would recommend. This has been an extremely difficult 2 months. I am 62 and never in my life have I had anxiety issues or panic attacks like I have since being on this medication.
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@lola63, it is regrettable that you have had to move through a bramble-patch of medications to deal with your hypertension over two months. Do I understand that your experience with Carvedilol came from prescriptions by two doctors -- one your primary care physician and the other an ER physician -- but not from specialists with more advanced knowledge of your symptoms?
I have been on Carvedilol for over a year and am now taking 25 mg tablets twice daily without apparent side effects. This is the latest in a string of 15 different medications for hypertension -- almost all of which were prescribed by a nephrologist. My HMO's standard treatment of hypertension is assigned to nephrologists because the kidneys are organically central to the problem. I also had the good fortune to find a nephrologist who is devoted to finding essential causes rather than managing symptoms with a fusillade of medications (which I had endured in years past). My initial treatment 20 years ago by cardiologists, as well as their return two years ago to my medical team, had no apparent effect on my blood pressure; their focus now is on atrial fibrillation which developed in 2015.
I know it's reassuring when you can identify a single cause of medical symptoms. Your primary physician seems to feel that you are beset by a complex of symptoms that a complex of medications could address. Would you feel even better if your condition were described by a specialist and confirmed in a second opinion by a team of specialists, such as you can engage at the Mayo Clinic? Let us know how we can help you think through finding a map to diagnosing and treating your condition.